Sorceries in Dark Souls and Dark Souls Remastered are a type of Magic and can only be cast if the player has an equipped Catalyst. Sorceries can be cast by the player at any time and each requires a specific number of Attunement slots in order to equip. All Sorceries have a required amount of Intelligence that must be met in order to use, with the highest being 50 and the lowest being 10. This forces players to make tough choices with their Stats, as players opting to use high level Sorceries will have less points to spend on Strength, Dexterity or Endurance, limiting their effectiveness in melee combat.
Catalysts also effect the damage or effectiveness of Sorceries depending on how much Intelligence you have. For this reason, players wishing to optimize their use of Sorceries should look into just which Catalyst to use for their Build. Further information can be found here: Intelligence and Faith Catalyst Magic Adjustment Values
Dark Souls Sorceries
There are 4 pieces of equipment that are known to increase spell damage. (patch 1.05)
- Head: Crown of Dusk+20% (Both)
- Head: Crown of the Dark Sun+10% (Both)
- Ring: Bellowing Dragoncrest Ring+ 20% (For Sorcery and Pyromancy)
- Ring of the Sun's Firstborn +20% (For Miracles)
(combined bonus of rings with: Crown of Dusk = +40%, Crown of the Dark Sun = 30% for sorcery)
Quick Search of All Sorceries
| Icon | Uses | Slots |  |
Description | Acquired From | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Soul Arrow |
30 | 1 | 10 | Fires a magical projectile. Excellent starting spell which does very good damage against most enemies in the early game areas. | Griggs of Vinheim 1,000 souls Big Hat Logan 1,000 souls Blacksmith Rickert of Vinheim 2,000 souls |
Ranged Magic Attack |
 Great Soul Arrow |
20 | 1 | 14 | Stronger soul arrow, same cast time as soul arrow, fewer uses. | Griggs of Vinheim 6,000 souls Big Hat Logan 6,000 souls |
Ranged Magic Attack |
 Heavy Soul Arrow |
12 | 1 | 12 | Stronger than greater soul arrow, longer casting time. | Griggs of Vinheim 2,000 souls Big Hat Logan 2,000 souls Blacksmith Rickert of Vinheim 4,000 souls |
Ranged Magic Attack |
 Great Heavy Soul Arrow |
8 | 1 | 16 | Stronger than heavy soul arrow, fewer uses. Has a slow cast time, but deals a tremendous amount of damage, even against bosses. | Griggs of Vinheim 8,000 souls Big Hat Logan 8,000 souls |
Ranged Magic Attack |
 Homing Soulmass |
10 | 1 | 18 | Fires multiple, homing magic projectiles. Can be successfully cast without an initial "lock on". Multiple soul arrows will hover above the player. Each individual soul arrow will seek the closest target, in the direction the player is facing, when in range. Because the spell can be cast in advance, it has a unique advantage in that, if timed correctly, it can be cast in synchronicity with other attacks. |
Big Hat Logan 20,000 souls Griggs of Vinheim 20,000 souls |
Ranged Magic Attack |
 Homing Crystal Soulmass |
10 | 1 | 24 | Fires multiple, homing crystal projectiles. Can be successfully cast without an initial "lock on". Multiple crystal arrows will hover above the player. Each individual soul arrow will seek the closest target, in the direction the player is facing, when in range. |
Big Hat Logan 30,000 souls | Ranged Magic Attack |
 Soul Spear |
4 | 1 | 36 | Fire piercing soul spear. | Big Hat Logan 40,000 souls Griggs of Vinheim 40,000 souls |
Ranged Magic Attack |
 Crystal Soul Spear |
4 | 1 | 44 | Fire an even more powerful, piercing ranged attack. | Big Hat Logan 50,000 souls | Ranged Magic Attack |
 White Dragon Breath |
20 | 1 | 50 | A straight line of crystals pop out of the ground in front of you, shooting towards your target. One advantage of this spell is that it will take out large groups of enemies if they are lined up one behind the other. It has a medium cast time, but once it fires, it will take out anything in its path. 20 casts make this a great high level replacement for the soul arrow at high levels, as it's not as useful on most bosses. | Big Hat Logan (drop) | Ranged Magic Attack |
 Magic Weapon |
5 | 1 | 10 | Enhances the right-hand weapon. Weapon must be standard, crystal, or raw. Some Dragon and Unique weapons can be enchanted too. Adds 0.8x your Magic Adjustment stat (NOT Intelligence) magic damage to your weapon. |
Griggs of Vinheim 3,000 souls Big Hat Logan 3,000 souls |
Weapon Buff |
 Great Magic Weapon |
3 | 1 | 15 | Enhances the right-hand weapon. Weapon must be standard, crystal, or raw. Some Dragon and Unique weapons can be enchanted too. Adds 1.1x your Magic Adjustment stat (NOT Intelligence) magic damage to your weapon. |
Cut Chandelier on the catwalk and pick up in front of Painted World Entrance in Anor Londo | Weapon Buff |
 Crystal Magic Weapon |
3 | 1 | 25 | Enhances and crystallizes right-hand weapon. Weapon must be standard, crystal, or raw. Some Dragon and Unique weapons can be enchanted too. Adds 1.4x your Magic Adjustment stat (NOT Intelligence) as magic damage to your weapon. |
Big Hat Logan 20,000 souls | Weapon Buff |
 Magic Shield |
5 | 1 | 10 | Reinforces the equipped shield or weapon able to block in the left hand with magic. Works on all types of shields (even unique or upgraded to any path) and on all weapons able to block while on the left hand (even unique or upgraded to any path). Halves stamina used on hit deflection (only on shields) and improves the weapon's or shield's magic resistance by 30% (by up to a maximum of 90%). Lasts 15 seconds, 5 casts. |
Griggs of Vinheim 3,000 souls Big Hat Logan 3,000 souls |
Support Defense (Buff) |
 Strong Magic Shield |
3 | 1 | 15 | Reinforces the equipped shield or weapon able to block in the left hand with a stronger magic effect. Works on all types of shields (even unique or upgraded to any path) and on all weapons able to block while on the left hand (even unique or upgraded to any path). Reduces the stamina used to deflect a hit considerably (only on shields) and improves all the resistances of the shield or weapon enchanted to 100%. Lasts 15 seconds, 3 casts. |
Chest in The Duke's Archives | Support Defense (Buff) |
 Aural Decoy |
20 | 1 | 10 | Lures enemies away by creating a sound originating in the distance. | Griggs of Vinheim 1,000 souls | Support Defense |
 Hush |
6 | 1 | 15 | Masks all noises of caster. | Sen's Fortress (treasure) Griggs of Vinheim (drop) |
Support Defense (Buff) |
 Fall Control |
10 | 1 | 15 | Reduces damage and noise from fall. However, terminal falls will still kill you even with this active. | Griggs of Vinheim 1,500 souls | Support Defense (Buff) |
 Hidden Weapon |
3 | 1 | 14 | Turns your right hand weapon invisible. Weapon must be standard, crystal, or raw. Some Dragon and Unique weapons can be enchanted too. |
Dusk of Oolacile 2,000 souls | Support (Weapon Buff) |
 Hidden Body |
3 | 1 | 14 | Masks your presence, making detection harder. | Dusk of Oolacile 2,000 souls | Support (Buff) |
 Repair |
1 | 1 | 14 | Repairs weapons and armor | Dusk of Oolacile 10,000 souls | Support |
 Cast Light |
3 | 1 | 14 | Cast a bright light upon surroundings, and lasts 5 minutes. Particularly useful for Tomb of Giants |
Dusk of Oolacile 1,000 souls | Support |
 Chameleon |
11 | 1 | 14 | Transform the caster into an inanimate object. Generally, the object you become is something common to the area you are in. Could be a vase, or a box, etc. Some strategy must be used, and the most effective is to place yourself in a cluster of similar objects. Once cast, you can move slowly and position yourself. If done properly, an enemy will walk by you and never know you're there. Cannot run when using, any other action breaks the effect. |
Dusk of Oolacile 3,000 souls | Support |
 Remedy |
4 | 1 | 16 | Removes poison/toxic/bleeding build up, and cures poison/toxic status. | Blighttown | Support |
 Resist Curse |
4 | 1 | 16 | Removes curse build up. | Ingward 5,000 souls | Support |
 Dark Orb |
12 | 1 | 16 | After a brief charge, fires a large shot at your target. | Found in Oolacile Township. (AotA Only) |
Ranged Magic Attack |
 Dark Bead |
6 | 1 | 16 | Fires a large amount of small dark orbs that fan outwards—very fast cast time. Excellent against large bosses. |
Found on a corpse behind an Oolacile Sorcerer in the Depths of the Abyss. (AotA Only) |
Ranged Magic Attack |
 Dark Fog |
2 | 1 | 18 | Creates a fog that inflicts poison. The fog is created at the location of the locked target. | Found in Oolacile Township (AotA Only) |
AoE Ranged Sorcery |
 Pursuers |
3 | 2 | 32 | Slow moving dark soul mass, fires and homes in on target when in range. Slower moving than homing soul mass but has much better homing capabilities. | Exchange Soul of Manus with Snuggly. (AotA Only) |
Ranged Magic Attack |
AnonymousTo be honest the sorcerer build is the most awkward build in the whole ds series. like I be wanting to be a total tank and not wanting to be weak and fragile. also you have a small selection of already magic weapons which is why sorcerer is the most awkward build
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Can you make a combo o regular homing Soulmass with crystal soulmass together?
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I got all of these but didnt get the achievement thanks xbox.
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List of types of sorceries (for lore/roleplaying's sake):
Soul Sorceries - (Soul Arrow, Heavy Soul Arrow, Soul Spear, Homing Soulmass, Magic Weapon, Magic shield)
Great Sorceries - (Great Soul Arrow, Great Heavy Soul Arrow, Great Magic Weapon, Strong Magic Shield)
Crystal Sorceries -(Crystal Soul Spear, Homing Crystal Soulmass, White Dragon Breath, Crystal Magic Weapon)
Sound Sorceries - (Aural Decoy, Hush, Fall Control)
Sealing Sorceries - (Remedy, Resist Curse)
Oolacile Sorceries - (Hidden Weapon, Hidden Body, Repair, Chameleon, Cast Light)
Dark Sorceries - (Dark Orb, Dark Bead, Dark Fog, Pursuers)
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"There are 3 pieces of equipment that are known to increase spell damage."
Proceeds to list 4, lol.
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I got the acquire all sorceries achievement on Xbox One Dark Souls Remastered without having this spell.
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They say sorceries are OP but I find them annoying how most go over the enemies heads.
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Shame how many sorceries were lost in ds3, and how many even in this game are locked behind dlc. Doesn’t ruin either game, not in the slightest, but 4/5 (great deep soul and deep soul may not count as 2 different sorceries in some people’s eyes) dark sorceries in ds3 is just kinda disappointing. Also the removal of resist curse and remedy makes no sense. Overall, the removal of all these sorceries just doesn’t make sense. Miracles are accessories most of the time, sorceries are offensive most of the time. Why they removed so much offense and 2 of the best and only accessories is just baffling to me.
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you can actually troll 90 % of the games enemies with Aural Decoy
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note you can only buy soul spear and homing soulmass from Griggs after Logan has left firelink . Maby
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This does slightly less damage than a regular Soul Spear. It has the same slow cast speed as the heavy spells, and like all other slow spells becomes significantly faster at 45 dex. It also cleaves everything in a line and has the same range as the soul spells.
What makes this spell so cool is that it has 20 uses per slot, so you can basically carry 40 of them around in NG+1, 60 in NG+2 etc.
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One question, is frampt able to buy sorceries, pyromancies and miracles? I have had a couple added by npc's and I don't like having them, I want to get rid of them.
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I've got all sorceries including dlc on DSR but no achievement? Is there a glitch?
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"Both" refers to two quantities iliterate beings, you can't use it to refer to three seperate things! IDIOTS! Rewrite the content of the page! For god's sake uneducated airheads
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You do not need any dlc sourceries or any weapons or armors to get achievements.
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I’ve been playing dark souls since I was like 9 and just now am figuring out where to get white dragons breath I’m 16 now I feel so stupid
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Souls spear and crystal souls spear need to take 2 slots and one per caracter like lightning spear to be legit
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It's kinda sad that the only "good" Abyss Sorceries are Dark Bead and Pursuers, while Dark Orb is as slow as the Heavy Soul Arrows and Dark fog is just a sorcery equivalent to Poison Mist.
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I want to experiment as a dark sorcercer. I was wandering if the spells are good for PVE and bosses. Any Ideas ??
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For all the bad things I said about Ds3 magic system, this is far worst. Not a lot of spells, not sure if they have hybrid catalysts and the spells are so slow...
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Daffy Duck the Wizard
o mago é implácavel
Sorcery >>>>>>>Melee
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As I wanted there to be dark damage in this game, and also a dark buff for weapons.
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The Hush Spell should included in the inventory of sorceries; hush is not a spell included in DS3.
hey does anyone know how to get crystal soul spear
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